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AI Solutions Architect · Serial Founder-CEO · TEDx Speaker

I build the program, and I ship the product.

A hands-on AI leader who turns ambiguous questions into governed systems, reviewed decisions, and shipped products. Proven inside a Fortune 150 enterprise and across two separate founder businesses. Credible in the boardroom and in the build.

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  • TEDx speaker · ~125K views
  • Ex-JPMorgan Chase VP
  • Patent-pending inventor
  • $5M+ network-analysis savings
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  • Enterprise Mobility

    Governed AI research department

  • Meat Bot

    Separate robotics business · 1st unit operating

  • Chicken Butt Jerky LLC

    AI-native CPG · launched in <90 days

first governed research pilot

16/16sampled claims supported

2 material errors caught before publication

$5M+
cost avoidance

AI-assisted network-outage analysis at Fortune 150 scale, with ~45% faster delivery.

16/16
sampled claims supported

Independent review in the first governed research pilot also caught 2 material errors before publication.

14
enterprise AI solutions

End-to-end solutions and reusable blueprints on a private, SSO-gated Azure GenAI platform.

<90 days
idea to launched brand

Bootstrapped an AI-native CPG brand from zero to shipping on ~$25K, in an industry with no prior experience.

~125K
TEDx views
6
parallel research lanes
40%
shorter support calls
80%
faster incident response
16
person team, 5 countries
2
provisional patent applications

Every number here is actual and shipped. No projections. No slideware.

The method

I don't just direct AI. I conduct it.

I design the operating system around the models: clear ownership, structured intake, parallel specialist work, independent review, and a human release gate. The result is not a clever chat. It is work that can survive scrutiny and ship.

01

Design the organization

Give every agent a bounded responsibility, a reporting path, an evidence contract, and a definition of done. I own the architecture and the outcome.

02

Make review structural

Assessors and adversaries work independently before a quality steward reconciles their findings. Disagreement is surfaced, not averaged away.

03

Keep human decision rights

Agents research, build, test, and prepare the decision. A human retains the material approval and release gate. Automation increases leverage without hiding accountability.

request to decision packagefirst governed research pilot
  1. 01Plain-language intake
  2. 026 specialist lanes
  3. 03Independent review
  4. 04Human release

One internal pilot, measured honestly: about six agent-active hours and 24h25 wall time because human decision gates dominated. No analyst-replacement claim, just a better-controlled path from question to decision package.

16/16
sampled claims supported
2
material errors intercepted
45
working files delivered
Selected work

Shipped systems, not slideware.

A sample across the range: governed research systems, enterprise RAG, voice AI, physical robotics, and agent-supported businesses. Each is tagged with exactly what I did.

All 30 projects
ProductionizedEnterprise Mobility

Governed Research Department

One request becomes an independently reviewed decision package

Productionized open-source Paperclip as the control plane for a governed research organization: intake, parallel evidence lanes, citation review, independent assessment, adversarial challenge, and human release. In its first internal pilot, six parallel research lanes produced a cited decision package; independent review supported all 16 sampled claims and caught two material errors before release. Clippy provides the guarded intake and status front door without making decisions for the user.

  • 6 parallel research lanes
  • 16/16 sampled claims supported
  • 2 material errors caught
  • human release gate

Paperclip · Hermes · OpenWebUI · Azure AI Foundry · MCP

BuiltEnterprise Mobility

SaaS-Hermes

A private specialist-agent platform with durable memory

Upgraded and consolidated a private Hermes research fleet around six core specialists, durable Honcho memory, curated RAG, voice, and governed tool access. The platform moved to Hermes v0.17, Honcho 3.0.11, and OpenWebUI 0.10.2 while consolidating six gateways and reducing the application topology from 17 to 12. Production checks covered cited research, identity, RAG, and speech paths in 5 to 17 seconds.

  • 6 core specialists
  • 17 to 12 applications
  • 2,070-item backlog drained
  • 5 to 17s production checks

Azure AI Foundry · Container Apps · Azure AI Search · MCP · WebRTC · FastAPI

ArchitectedEnterprise Mobility

Private Enterprise GenAI Platform

The in-tenant control plane every solution plugs into

A fully in-tenant Azure AI platform where no inference or data ever leaves the company tenant. One governed, SSO-gated workspace delivering multi-model chat, agentic RAG, voice AI, and document intelligence, plus the reusable blueprints that turn one-off builds into a repeatable platform.

  • 14 solutions
  • 131 model deployments
  • ~45 MCP tools
  • private, SSO-gated environment

Azure · Private VNet · Entra SSO · Managed Identity · OpenWebUI · LiteLLM

BuiltMeat Bot

Meat Bot

AI-assisted food-production robotics, operating separately from CBJ

Designed, built, and deployed the first Meat Bot production unit at a USDA-inspected co-packer, then developed the platform across eight workstreams: ESP32-S3 firmware, GRBL motion control, OTA, fleet cloud, command-and-control dashboard, hardware, documentation, and web. The business now operates separately from Chicken Butt Jerky LLC; the first unit has operated at the co-packer since April 2026.

  • first Meat Bot unit deployed
  • operating since April 2026
  • 2 provisional patent applications
  • 8 platform workstreams

ESP32-S3 · KiCad · GRBL · OTA firmware · Google Cloud Run · Supabase

meat-bot.com
ProductionizedMeat Bot + Chicken Butt Jerky LLC

AI Operating System for Founder-Led Businesses

Three specialized operating organizations with explicit human gates

Productionized a self-hosted, config-as-code Paperclip control plane across Meat Bot engineering, Meat Bot sales and research, and Chicken Butt Jerky operations. The system coordinates board workflows, provider lanes, capacity, immutable releases, exports, and human approvals. As of August 12, 2026, the three organizations contained 45 active software and service seats; that count describes configured automation capacity, not employees.

  • 3 specialized organizations
  • 45 active software/service seats
  • config-as-code
  • human approval gates

Paperclip · Hermes · Pi · Git · self-hosted control plane

BuiltChicken Butt Jerky LLC

Hermes

A self-hosted specialist-agent layer for founder operations

Built a self-hosted set of specialist agents supporting Chicken Butt Jerky across operations, marketing, finance, retail intelligence, internal tools, and quality review. Shared memory and governed integrations let the agents carry context across work while keeping consequential actions behind human approval. This was the operating layer that later informed the Paperclip organization design.

  • specialized operating roles
  • cross-agent memory
  • human approval boundaries
  • private network access

Hermes · Honcho + pgvector · OpenWebUI · Telegram · Cloud SQL · Tailscale

chickenbuttjerky.com
BuiltEnterprise Mobility

CCC Intelligence Hub

Document intelligence that collapses weeks into hours

A 7-stage pipeline that scrapes a gated external portal, enriches every document with AI summaries and extracted action items, and serves it all as searchable knowledge, compressing weeks of manual review into a 2-hour auto-refresh cycle.

  • 254K+ chunks
  • 2,409 AI summaries
  • 4,763 action items
  • 2-hour refresh (from weeks)

Playwright · Python · Azure AI Search · PostgreSQL · Blob Storage

BuiltEnterprise Mobility

Call-Center Chatbot

Conversational AI with proven ROI

A pilot agent that lets support reps retrieve data and answer customer questions in natural language, surfacing answers in the conversation instead of hunting across systems. Direct proof of conversational AI tied to a measurable business outcome.

  • 40% shorter calls
  • +23% accuracy
  • +17% CSAT
  • measured pilot outcomes

RAG · LLM retrieval · Conversational UX

The path

Twenty years of enterprise, reinvented as a builder.

Systems to security to cloud to VP, then founder. The same arc that took me into the boardroom keeps me in the codebase.

Full story & career

  1. Enterprise Mobility

    Sep 2023 - Present

    Lead AI Solutions Architect, R&D Innovation · Remote

    Lead the AI innovation program at a Fortune 150 mobility enterprise as a de facto AI center of excellence: scouting emerging AI, architecting solutions, pitching senior leadership, and productionizing the platforms other teams build on.

    • Delivered $5M+ cost avoidance and ~45% faster delivery through AI-agent automation for network-outage analysis.
    • Architected a private, in-tenant Azure GenAI platform supporting 14 end-to-end solutions and reusable blueprints.
    • Built a governed research department with intake, six parallel specialist lanes, production, independent assessment and adversarial review, and human release gates.
    • In its first internal pilot, independent review supported 16 of 16 sampled claims and intercepted two material errors before publication.
    • Led an enterprise API-security evaluation (a 140-requirement scoring matrix) and briefed the C-suite on vendor strategy.
    current

  2. Meat Bot

    Jul 2025 - Present

    Founder, CEO & AI/Tech Lead · McKinney, TX

    Lead the food-automation robotics business, now operating separately from Chicken Butt Jerky LLC, with a lean founding team and governed AI engineering and sales-research organizations.

    • Designed, built, and deployed the first Meat Bot production unit at a USDA-inspected co-packer, operating there since April 2026.
    • Productized the system across eight workstreams: firmware, motion control, OTA, fleet cloud, operator dashboard, hardware, documentation, and web.
    • Filed two U.S. provisional patent applications for the robotics work (patent-pending).
    • Built separate governed AI organizations for engineering delivery and evidence-led sales research.
    founder

  3. Chicken Butt Jerky LLC

    Jul 2025 - Present

    Founder, CEO & AI/Tech Lead · McKinney, TX

    Founded an AI-native CPG business operated by two founders and a distinct governed AI organization spanning compliance, finance, marketing, retail intelligence, tools, and QA.

    • Launched the brand in under 90 days on ~$25K bootstrapped, in an industry with zero prior experience.
    • Sold ~4,000 units DTC and built a ~41-store pre-committed retail pipeline (KeHE/UNFI).
    • Built Hermes as a self-hosted multi-agent operating system for back-office work and business integrations.
    founder

  4. Memory Gardens

    Jan 2022 - Sep 2023

    Founder & CEO · McKinney, TX

    Built a Web3 + AI startup from concept to market: a decentralized 3D media-legacy app shipped on iOS and Android, concept to public beta in 12 months.

    • Led a 16-person globally distributed team across 5 countries.
    • During a cash crunch, used AI to backfill roles after layoffs, the spark for the human + AI-agent workforce model I run today.
    • Reached ~5,000 installs in early market validation.
    founder

  5. JPMorgan Chase & Co.

    Nov 2020 - Aug 2021

    Vice President, Enterprise Cloud Solution Architecture · Plano, TX

    Set cloud integration and transformation direction across business lines on Google Cloud and AWS; shaped the blockchain department's infrastructure and firm-wide reusable multi-cloud blueprints, IAM guardrails, and SRE frameworks.

  6. DTCC

    Nov 2013 - Jul 2018

    Associate Director & Sr. Infrastructure Architect · Dallas, TX

    Led a $5.2M enterprise mobility and security program that unlocked global work-from-anywhere; set architecture standards and drove cross-functional IT and business delivery.

Capabilities

The full stack of the role, strategy through firmware.

The merge, made concrete. Every item is backed by shipped work, not coursework.

GenAI & Agents

Where I spend most of my time.

  • LLMs & prompt engineering
  • Agentic & multi-agent systems
  • Governed AI companies (boards + gates)
  • RAG (vector / hybrid / semantic)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI
  • Anthropic Claude
  • LangChain · AutoGen · Langflow · LiteLLM
  • Fine-tuning & evals
  • Voice AI (STT / TTS)
  • Vision & edge AI
  • AI for robotics · digital twins
  • AI-assisted CAD

Cloud & Platform

20 years of enterprise architecture underneath the AI.

  • Azure (primary) · AWS · GCP
  • Container Apps · Kubernetes · Docker
  • Zero-trust / private AI
  • Private endpoints · VNet · Entra ID
  • Key Vault · managed identity
  • Cosmos DB · PostgreSQL / pgvector · Blob
  • Terraform · Bicep · GitHub Actions
  • Cloudflare · Tailscale

Build & Ship

Still hands-on in the codebase.

  • Python · FastAPI
  • TypeScript · Node.js
  • React · Next.js · SvelteKit
  • Solidity · smart contracts
  • Bash · SQL
  • ESP32 / embedded firmware
  • CI/CD & GitOps
  • Infrastructure as Code

Lead & Advise

The executive half of the merge.

  • AI strategy & transformation
  • AI center of excellence stand-up
  • Hybrid human + AI-agent team design
  • Executive advisory & storytelling
  • Program & portfolio management
  • Vendor evaluation & build-vs-buy
  • GTM · P&L · board advisory
  • Mentorship & next-gen leadership
Recognition & voice

A public track record, on the record.

Press & appearances
TEDxHartford 2023 · ~125,000 views

The Illusion of Memory: Can We Truly Digitize Existence?

Watch on the official TEDx channel

Patent-Pending Inventor

Two U.S. provisional patent applications filed for AI-assisted food-production robotics.

AI Thought Leader

6,300+ LinkedIn followers; frequent high-engagement posts on agents, human agency, and AI-native companies.

Three-Time Founder

Built Memory Gardens, Chicken Butt Jerky LLC, and Meat Bot across software, consumer products, and robotics.

Let's build

Have something ambitious that needs to ship?

I'm always open to a conversation about frontier AI, agentic systems, and turning hard problems into running products. Based in McKinney / Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. Work anywhere.

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